Our co-founder and CPO, Margus Pala, just got back from Authenticate 2025, the FIDO Alliance conference in Carlsbad, CA, and his feedback was clear: the password era is ending, and that’s a good thing.
What stood out across the week was how fast passkeys are becoming the default. New accounts on major platforms increasingly start there by design, which quietly removes a lot of friction (and those painful SMS OTP costs) while raising the security bar. The surprise isn’t the tech, it’s how normal this already feels when it’s done well. Once passkeys are set up, passwords are deleted, and only passkeys will be available for future logins.
From Passwords to Passkeys, and What Comes Next
Of course, there’s a catch: account recovery. Any system is only as strong as its weakest step, and today that’s often “lost credential” flows. This is where wallets and eIDs can shine: phishing-resistant recovery that doesn’t fall back to insecure email or SMS. Pair that with a growing push to onboard users with eID and then switch day-to-day login to passkeys, and you get the best of both worlds: high assurance at signup, effortless sign-ins after.
Ecosystems like Okta and Microsoft Entra ID make it easier than ever to plug in via OIDC, and the privacy conversation is maturing fast. Selective disclosure and zero-knowledge proofs aren’t buzzwords in this crowd; they’re becoming practical ways to prove what’s needed - and only what’s needed - without turning users into products. Verifiable Credentials are on everyone’s radar, too, even if adoption is still early.
Margus’ talk walked the audience through how wallets and eIDs are already working in the real world, from the Nordics to Latin America and Asia, and the lesson was simple: we don’t need a breakthrough to make this useful; we need adoption and accessibility. Give people wallets they can actually use, make it straightforward for businesses to integrate, remove the cross-border hurdles, and the rest follows.
If you’re exploring passkeys, eID onboarding, or secure recovery, reach out to Margus; he’s happy to share what he learned on the ground and where it’s headed next.
